What happened to us is not our fault. But it’s our responsibility to participate in our own healing and growth.
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Investigative Selfism is like investigative journalism but looking inwards.
Here, explore resources that can help us lead lives that are more meaningful, authentic, and bold. Together with an array of teachers, I dive into the topics of fear and courage, integrity and discomfort, personal agency, and how to build it.
Most importantly, I share resources that can empower us to move through life with more self-compassion.
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My latest posts:
Can We Have Empowerment without Healing?
As I have focused my whole podcast season on empowerment, I can’t go through it without addressing one major factor in our growth: healing. How can we approach it? How can we visualise that journey and why is it important to embark on it?
Continue readingDo You Trust Science When It Comes to High Performance?
High performance is a real thing. More interestingly, it’s something that can be deconstructed and presented to us in the form of habits. Why wouldn’t we like to know what they are?
Continue readingFixed Mindset or Growth Mindset?
Many people would like to believe they have a growth mindset (it’s the “cool” one to have). But what is it really? Do we really have it? And what would that look like?
Continue readingDon’t Base Your Growth on Shame
Can we base our desire to change and grow on something destructive? Unfortunately, that is possible, and the unhealthy base we have to talk about is shame. What is it, how can we approach it, and what can we base our personal development on instead?
Continue readingTop Three Beliefs That Move Us Forward
Why would we ever do anything, including work on ourselves? I believe that behind any investment in ourselves we find three ideas that can continue moving us forward in times of good and bad. Find them here!
Continue readingOn The Importance of Allowing Ourselves to Feel What We Feel
If emotions are signals, we better learn how to read them instead of pushing them away. It’s not an easy tasks but if we want a life of self-knowledge and meaning, we truly can’t skip it.
Continue readingCan We Have Better Problems?
In this episode, I invite you to take honest and brave inventory of the challenges you’re facing: I invite you to see if you can elevate them and see if there’s anything more meaningful and more empowering behind them.
Continue readingHave You Reflected on Your Learnings And Intentions Recently?
As the year is ending, I’d like to invite you to take the time for yourself and reflect on how this year has been and how you have shown up in different areas of your life. Why? Because when we bring the unconscious to the surface we equip ourselves to make better choices about our own lives.
Continue readingDo You Know Your Near Enemies of Compassion?
Are we acting out of compassion or is it something else? Learn about the near enemies of compassion as presented by Chris Germer and based on Buddhist psychology.
Continue readingAre You Protecting Your Precious Mind?
What we consume and what people we spend time with is a big deal. It can affect our focus, our mood, what habits we have, and, in the end, how we choose to show up in this world. I invite you to take some time and reflect on what you have been allowing into your life. Not because this reflection is something you “have” to do but because I want you to remember that YOU MATTER.
Continue readingInspect Your Metaphors
The way we talk to ourselves and about ourselves is super important. This is where our entire world is formed! So let’s not add to the disempowerment that we might need to fight off outside of our heads — let’s use empowering metaphors instead.
Continue readingFour Reminders When Dealing With Family
Spending time with family can be hard. So how can we frame it for ourselves in ways that are healthier for us? What reminders do we need in this potentially stressful and frustrating situation? I share four such reminders in my episode.
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My name is Justina, nice to meet you!
Although my academic training is in political science, I’ve realised that to fight different forms of oppression we also have to do it on a personal level.
So, for over a decade, I’ve been pursuing my interests in mindfulness and Buddhist psychology, only to discover how well they go together with other disciplines like neuroscience, NLP, CBT, NVC, Internal Family Systems, and others.
Just like you, I’m learning how to speak to myself more gently, set healthy boundaries, uncover my limiting beliefs, and empower myself to live and love more fully.
Read more about me here! I am also offering free coaching sessions for anyone interested.
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